Developers make assumptions about how our code will behave when executed, but we’re not always right. Without certainty, it is challenging to write programs that work correctly at runtime. Java ...

Hardware designers and verification engineers have embraced the use of assertions. They are a way to formally specify a design's intended behavior, which must hold true during the course of a design ...

Assertions bring immediate benefits to the entire design and verification cycle. To use assertions effectively in the verification cycle, they need to be exercised for checking legal design behavior ...

Design-for-verification (DFV) using assertions has received much attention in the recent technical press. Coverage has ranged from standardization efforts for assertion languages to complete DFV ...

Assertions have been a staple in formal verification for years. Now they are being examined to see what else they can be used for, and the list is growing. Traditionally, design and verification ...

Assertions and assertion IP (AIP) are a core part of the register transfer level (RTL) verification environment for all modern chip development projects. Assertions can be considered as statements of ...

Theoretically, the use—and subsequent reuse—of intellectual property (IP) should ease the pain of verification. IP lets designers break up the project into self-contained functional blocks, each of ...